This course examines modernist novels and works of short fiction (by Kafka, Zweig, Borges, Eliot, Faulkner and Woolf,) alongside recent popular mainstream films (by the Coen brothers, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, Wes Anderson, Michael Haneke, Agnès Varda, Noah Baumbach, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Christopher Nolan, Richard Linklater and others) that draw upon techniques, aesthetics and themes of modernist literature (without actually ADAPTING them) in their films.